A Tale of Two Cities? Shushan Purim in Modern-day Yerushalayim (with Google Earth Video)

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Collections: Shushan Purim

References: Megilla: 2b Megilla: 3b Megilla: 3a Megilla: 2a Megilla: 4a  

Publication: To-Go Volume 1

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Attached is a Google Earth video to accompany the article for a bird's eye view of the geography relevant to the Halacha. To view, please download Google Earth at earth.google.com. Analysis of the issues that determine when various neighborhoods of modern-day Jerusalem celebrate Purim.

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today l'zecher nishmas Harav Avraham ben Menachem Moshe, Dr. Allen Goldstein to commemorate his 10th yahrzeit, by his family and by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the thirteenth yahrtzeit of their father Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R’ Dovid V’ Fraidah Raizel Peyser